cep 810

I am adding this to my blog just to remember this technology. I made this as a intro to a project in CEP 810

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7465135/video-lesson-cep-810

Wicked Problem Project

I wanted to design an online class to prepare the students for college and a better use of technology in the classroom.  I started with implementing a pretest, movie/tutorial and a posttest in my computer programming class. My school only offers one online class for the students and I felt this was a class that could be a good opportunity for the students. Being an elective course this could allow the students not only another elective but the opportunity to use technology and freedom to complete the State of Michigan’s online requirement.

This implementation will allow the students to be able to go back and review any tutorial/movies, assignments and presentations that they might need for a better understanding of the material.

Overall my experience went smoothly, the only bump in the road was that I did not set the date right on post test. The students were not able to access the test. After this discovery I went into Edline and fixed this and the student’s were able to complete the test. The response from the students was great. They enjoyed the freedom to complete this assignment online. They even asked for more of the assignments to be added to Edline. Some of them even thought it would be fun for them to make presentations and share them to Edline for further learning.

The evidence was the completion of the assignment and the positive feedback. The grades also showed that it was a success. They all scored above 80% on the post test and enjoyed the use of technology. No one had any problems using Edline or accessing the material posted (after I fixed the date).

I plan to implement more assignments and have this class up and running in the fall. Although it is too late in the year to offer this as an online class I will include all of the material online, this will allow a better opportunity for next years class. I will be able to monitor this class to find out if I need to change anything before I actually run a fully developed class online.

Click link to view my final WPP Presentation
http://msu.edu/~kronecks/wppfinalpresentation.swf

Group Leadership Final Project

What tool did your group use to deliver the PD tutorial? Why?  

Our group used SlideRocket as our tool to present our Group Leadership Final Project. To develop our short video clips we used Jing. We used iWisoft Flash/SWF to convert the (.swf) files from Jing to (.avi) files in order to upload the files to non-flash videos. Some of the videos that are used in our presentation are linked from YouTube. There is also a real-time Twitter link that displays updates.

 

What did you learn during the development process of the final product?

As a group we planned to use PowerDirector, a photo editing tool, to tie all the elements together. It was good for trimming the videos but we were not happy with the results. PowerDirector had limited features with less then perfect quality. Kit was familiar with SlideRocket, we decided to go with SlideRocket as our final presentation tool.

Kit and I had great communication during the entire project. We communicated through, email, post on discussion forums, web conferencing and cell phones. We never had a problem or miscommunication within our team. Kit and I discussed our group project and supported each other on other class assignments.

What would you do differently if you had to develop a similar product again?

Honestly, this was a great experience and there isn’t anything I would change. I am sure if there were more team members it would have been more difficult collaborating and dividing up the work. Since, there was only the two of us it was easy to communicate and complete the assignment.